I can better hear the different voices of Consolation #3 when I play with my eyes closed, which I can briefly do now that I've memorized the first 2 pages. This is helping me separately pace the lines of 8th notes (and - help! - 16th notes) in the treble and the triplets in the bass.
Yuliya says to play the bass and sing the treble. This helped a lot too. She says that if I think that the pace of the singing is too slow, that means I need to speed up the piece, since it is a song.
After working on the above I played Song of the Lark and was better able to separate the bass line from the accompaniment line. Yuliya says that the latter needs to be the quietest of the three. I am starting to be able to hear what I need to do.
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I am commenting only because its sad no one has commented lately. I have nothing intelligent to remark. Keep up the good work!
ReplyDeletePS - I'm sorry I did not correctly apostrophisize it's. I know that makes you mad/ashamed.
ReplyDeletePPS - I'm sorry I invented the word apostrophasize.
ReplyDelete"It's" is a killer! But I think that inadvertent omission of the apostrophe used to show elision (as in "it's" for "it is") is not irritating at all, whereas the incorrect and redundant addition of an apostrophe to show possession in what is already a possessive pronoun ("it's" for "its") is, well, if not irritating, then at least redundant. And I recently saw that goof somewhere that should have had good editorial review, such as the Tax Court website or something like that! I like the word apostrophize, or apostrophasize, or whaatever we should make it.
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